Liaison Report
Reported by (Name):
Lynne Fairobent
Organization:
AIP
Position Title:
Member
Activity:
AIP Congressional Fellowship Committee
Meeting Dates:
March 21, 2007
Meeting Location:
AIP
Payment $:
N/A
Reasons for Attending or not
Attending
Attended
Issues from Previous Meetings None
or Year:
General Description of
Activities of the Organization
and/or Meeting:
2007 Congressional Fellowship selection process.
The 2006-2007 American Institute of Physics
Congressional Fellowship Selection Committee
comprised Ruth Howes (chair), Marquette University;
Ivan Kaminow, University of California; Jeffrey Park,
Yale University; Lynne Fairobent, AAPM; Paula
Grunthaner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; and Maureen
Mellody, National Academy of Sciences. The
deadline for applications was January 15, 2007.
Candidates for the Fellowship were required to be
members of one or more AIP Member Society and
U.S. citizens, and have outstanding scientific
credentials, communications skills, and interest or
experience in applying S&T to government policy.
The committee received 21 completed applications for
evaluation and, after a March 1, 2007 conference call,
selected six finalists to be interviewed in person, and
two alternates. Ultimately, several of the finalists
accepted other offers in the meantime and both
alternates were invited to be interviewed.
On March 21, 2007, the committee met from 7:30 am
to 4:30 pm in Conference Room B of the American
Issues for AAPM:
Budget Request ($):
Center for Physics, and interviewed 5 finalists. The
committee’s selection as 2007-8 AIP Congressional
Fellow was John Veysey, an APS member who has a
PhD in fluid dynamics from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, and has been working there as
a research assistant, studying carbonate formations in
hot springs at Yellowstone National Park and around
the world. In 2004, Veysey spent several months
exploring journalism as an APS Mass Media Fellow.
He will interview for a placement in a congressional
office and begin his 12-month Fellowship term in the
fall of 2007, after a two-week orientation provided by
the American Association for the Advancement of
Science.
None. This is an important activity and I am happy
to represent AAPM.
None